Use prize in a sentence
Sentences ending with prize
- To whom else would fall the lion's share of the enormous prize! [10]
- But another party won the prize! [5]
- The Government Arsenal, with its stores of arms and ammunition, was the prize. [9]
- We concluded he was a prize. [5]
- Well, sir, try to conceive of the result: to my consternation, he took the first prize! [5]
- And this youth, this handsome, spirited-looking, noble-aired young fellow, whose artist-eye could not miss a line of Myrtle's proud and almost defiant beauty, was to be the witness of his power, and to look in admiration upon his prize! [6]
- To one of them Mr. King was presented, Mrs. Stimpson--a stout woman with a broad red face and fishy eyes, wearing an elaborate head-dress with purple flowers, and attired as if she were expecting to take a prize. [4]
- Emerson received the second prize. [6]
- This was a prize. [5]
- The judges must not talk about the work until both tasks are completed, for then each of us will be as good as certain of a prize. [10]
Short sentences using prize
- Yes, sir, he's a prize. [8]
- A Prize Essay. [3]
- Another prize? [9]
Sentences containing prize two or more times
- I hope you will prize her as we prize her. [9]
- Owing to his accusations there was a thorough investigation of the affair, a new judge was appointed who awarded the first prize at once to Johannes Ueberhell, the said prize consisting of a magnificent commission. [10]
More example sentences with the word prize in them
- Her religion, which you once disliked so much, I will venture you now prize most highly. [7]
- The best scheme will have the preference; and you seem to me to be the man to win the prize, and, with it, a wide and noble field of work in the future. [10]
- I suppose you will get a prize, because you have created the most prodigious and in all ways most wonderful Fair the planet has ever seen. [5]
- It is he who has that we prize so dearly (i.e. [5]
- If the judges who awarded the prize agreed with the verdict of the grammateus, he must accustom himself to value his own work higher, perhaps even above that of Myrtilus. [10]
- All in all, whenever he thought of this pair, he felt like the lover of art who entrusts the finest gem in his collection to a rich man who knows not how to prize its real value, and puts it in the wrong place. [10]
- Florette now knew what her son had experienced in life, what had moved his heart, his soul, and could not contradict him, when he told her that power was the highest prize of existence. [10]
- But if I were the Divinity I should prize them no higher than a hoopoe's crest; for He, who sees into the heart of the giver-alas! [10]
- They were very well done, but he hated doing them after the first two or three, and had to be punched up for them by Fulkerson, who did not cease to prize them, and who never failed to punch him up. [8]
- There a throne was the prize, and might cost the blood and life of thousands!--What did a man bring home from the churches in the Nile valley? [10]
- The first prize was a most cunning half-grown silver bugle, and mighty pretty, with red silk cord and tassels. [5]
- I suppose she wanted to impress me with the value of the prize I've drawn, dear. [4]
- I took it up with a certain emulous interest (for I fancied at that day that I too had drawn a prize, say a five-dollar one, at least, in the great intellectual life-lottery) and read the first words. [6]
- In a minor tournament I won the prize, which was a Waterbury watch. [5]
- If we had to keep the sun kindled up and going by private corporate action, or act of Congress, and to be taxed for the support of customs officers of solar heat, we should prize it more than we do. [4]
- Myrtilus will add this prize to the others, and grant me with all his heart the one for the Arachne. [10]
- Took every prize, they say, and led the school, though there was plenty of fuss because they let you do it, and let you stay there, being half-Indian. [11]
- But we--we enlist them in the name of the loftiest ideas and warmest desires of the human heart, and, as the prize of victory, we show them the ancient faith with freedom of thought--the ancient loveliness of life. [10]
- I have heaped the window-seats with soft furs, and one of these I prize most rarely. [11]
- The blood and the treasure of the inhabitants are the prize of my soldiery. [10]
- For of all the strange, and frantic, and incomprehensible, and uninterpretable books which the imagination of man has created, surely this one is the prize sample. [5]
- For of all the strange and frantic and incomprehensible and uninterpretable books which the imagination of man has created, surely this one is the prize sample. [5]
- On the day the prize was to be awarded the wish to see the work of the successful competitor drew him to Antwerp, and what was his surprise, on entering the hall, to hear his own name proclaimed as the victor's! [10]
- Farmer Bell had the prize Bartlett pear tree, and the prettiest gal in that section. [9]
- Then there came the inspiration to write his poem on Sir John Franklin, and he had done so, winning the college prize for poetry. [11]
- A part of the entertainment at this ceremony consisted in the listening to the reading of short extracts from the prize essays, some or all of them in the dead languages, which could not have been particularly intelligible to a large part of the audience. [6]
- One variety of the Canary-bird, namely the London Prize, offers a nearly analogous case. [1]
- Then there was the affair near Lagny, where we charged the intrenched Burgundians through the open field four times, the last time victoriously; the best prize of it Franquet d'Arras, the free-booter and pitiless scourge of the region roundabout. [5]
- Here he learned that the rich prize had been wrecked in the storm and the captain and half the crew drowned. [4]
- They can't understand that all those feelings they prize so--all our feelings, all those ideas that seem so important to us, are unnecessary. [2]
- Here is Helen, strong and lithe of limb, ox-eyed, courageous, but woman-hearted and love-inspiring, contended for by all the braves and daring moonshiners of Cut Laurel Gap, pursued by the gallants of two States, the prize of a border warfare of bowie knives and revolvers. [4]
- A subtle smile sometimes flitted over his grave, somewhat melancholy face--that of a man who has ceased to wrestle in the arena of life, and after severe conflict now preferred to stand among the spectators and watch others win or lose the prize of victory. [10]
- The prize for soldiers and lictors alike lies in the merchants' chests. [10]
- And it just so happened that that prize pear tree had a whopper on that year, and old man Bell couldn't talk of anything else. [9]
- He found Jerry Shorter in a receptive mood, and drew him into Cecil Grainger's study, where this latter gentleman, when awake, carried on his lifework of keeping a record of prize winners. [9]
- Then, as if running for a prize in the gymnasium, he rushed through the darkness to the staircase, and with breathless haste groped his way down the narrow, ladderlike steps. [10]
- No one at Rhodes--and this is just what I prize in you--hated imitation more, yet what would using the Arachne on the pedestal for a model be except showing the world not how Hermon, but how Althea imagines the hapless transformed mortal? [10]
- My brother Straton--you remember the noble youth who won the prize for wrestling at Olympia, Berenike--and I were commissioned to carry the treasure to her. [10]
- The practice of recklessly heaving immense solid bouquets, of the general size and weight of prize cabbages, from the dizzy altitude of the galleries, is dangerous and very reprehensible. [5]
- A cake is provided as a prize for the winner in the competition, and a bench of experts in deportment is appointed to award it. [5]
- Snatch the curious prize, Give it a place among thy treasured spoils Fossil and relic,--corals, encrinites, The fly in amber and the fish in stone, The twisted circlet of Etruscan gold, Medal, intaglio, poniard, poison-ring, --Place for the Memphian beetle with thine hoard! [6]
- I relinquish the prize to you, and to you only. [9]
- I should highly prize the advantages to be gained in an extended range of observation; but I tremble at the thought of the price I must necessarily pay in mental distress and physical wear and tear. [14]
- He offered a prize of fifteen cents to the one who should first eat the contents of his dish, not using his hands, and hold up the saucer empty in token of his victory. [4]
- Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! [2]
- With such a prize in prospect we must no more fear a little humiliation than a man who is learning to ride fears a fall from his horse. [10]
- The impartial John praised the victor in mock heroics, but said that the trial was so even that he would divide the prize, ten cents to one and five to the other--a stroke of justice that greatly increased his popularity. [4]
- I think the owner of this prize had a wrong opinion about him. [5]
- Usually he struck out briskly in the direction of the pastures where his prize Guernseys were feeding, stopping on the way to pick up the manager of his farm. [9]
- With nothing but our non-existent capital to work with the book has no value for us, rich a prize as it will be to any competent house that gets it. [5]
- After a moment or two he ventured forward again--one step--reached for his prize and seized it, dropping the knife sheath. [5]
- He was not only a suitor with a prize to gain, he was a colloquial artist about to employ all the resources of his specialty. [6]
- P.S.--For the best Obituary--one suitable for me to read in public, and calculated to inspire regret--I desire to offer a Prize, consisting of a Portrait of me done entirely by myself in pen and ink without previous instructions. [5]
- But it is not for him to talk, or to bestir himself in any unseemly manner, for the prize which he was to have was in the nature of a gift. [9]
- Matrimonially he was not a prize, for he was without fortune and without powerful connections. [4]
- He also saw Myrtilus's figure before him, and in imagination heard his friend again promise that, with the Arachne, he would wrest the prize even from him. [10]
- I gave up my last hope of the prize yesterday while looking at your Demeter. [10]
- But, however successful my Demeter may be, you would have awarded the prize twice over to the one by Myrtilus. [10]
- Come along here, Mr. Wright, and I'll show you the best cows this side of the Hudson Riverall pedigreed prize winners. [9]
- What I prize most is safety, and in, the second place swift transit and handiness. [5]
- Shouts of joy mingled with yells of fury; and awakened the conjecture that the sea had washed some specially valuable prize ashore. [10]
- I saw the mighty prize slipping from my grasp, the splendid dream vanishing away. [5]
- Lucy must not marry Dr. John; he is far too youthful, handsome, bright-spirited, and sweet-tempered; he is a 'curled darling' of Nature and of Fortune, and must draw a prize in life's lottery. [14]
- Thus was I made good prize on all sides. [4]
- I am a little particular about the statement; for, if there is any prize offered for asparagus at the next agricultural fair, I wish to compete, --speed to govern. [4]
- And now?--He felt like one who, while running for a prize, stumbles over a stone and grovels in the sand when he is already close to the goal. [10]
- He was at least secure against external want; the generous Archias would hardly withhold from him the prize he had intended for the successful statue, although the second had been destroyed. [10]
- I sat writing late one night, copying a prize essay,--a merely manual task, leaving my thoughts free. [4]
- Now I didn't know I was drawing a prize, yet that was what I did draw. [5]
- Not that first joy I had when I won the great prize in Paris equals it. [11]
- I don't believe it's harder than it was to solve that prize problem which puzzled so many teachers, or than beating Crakowitz, the great chess-player. [6]
- A deeper insight into the lives of Barop and Langethal taught me to prize these men more and more. [10]
- Once he saw in the newspaper an Antwerp competition for a prize. [10]
- In a town in the interior of New York, a few years ago, a gentleman set forth a mathematical problem and proposed to give a prize to every public-school pupil who should furnish the correct solution of it. [5]
- I suppose that in the beginning I prized it, because we prize anything that is ours; and yet how foolish it was to think so. [5]
- They succeeded, however, in preserving the lion's share of the precious booty for a time of need, and thus averted much drunkenness, though the spirit of the grape-juice and the pleasure in obtaining so rich a prize doubtless enhanced the grateful excitement of the throng. [10]
- It was taken in good faith as an intentional joke, and the prize one of the entertainment, and I wisely let it go at that. [5]
- You will not in any case detain the crew of a captured neutral vessel or any other subject of a neutral power on board such vessel, as prisoners of war or otherwise, except the small number necessary as witnesses in the prize court. [7]
- Once in Keilhau I caught a fawn in the wood and was delighted with my beautiful prize. [10]
- Like the Columbus, however, who plants his flag upon the cliffs of a new land, and then, leaving his vast prize unharvested, retreats upon the sea by which he came, so Ian suddenly realized that here was no abiding-place for his love. [11]
- He also knew how to prize her beauty and her singing, but the ardent passion which had taken possession of him in his mature years was for Cleopatra alone. [10]
- He rushed to his work with tireless energy, and even the hardest task became easy, when he thought of the prize he sought. [10]
- He handed up his prize, and behold it was a pig of silver! [11]
- Harry bragged about his conquest, as was his habit, and took Philip round to see his western prize. [5]
- Power, power, the highest prize on earth, was attained, was his! [10]
- England rose in her indignation; and Barnum was glad to relinquish his prize and offer apologies. [5]
- And knowing this, he knew that to gain her now (could such a high prize be gained! [9]
- If the enemy hastens his march, there will be great confusion, and we shall perhaps throw a rich prize into his hands. [10]
- These were two handsome youths, who had gained the prize for wrestling, and one day, when the draught- animals had not returned from the field, dragged their mother themselves to the distant temple, in presence of the people. [10]
- Not only her hand, her gaze and her every feature awarded the prize to the man at her feet. [10]
- After all, I had outwitted circumstance, I had gained the prize, I could afford to wait a little. [9]
- The first prize had been awarded to you for your Aphrodite, radiant in marvellous beauty, and your brow had also been already crowned for your statue of Alexander, when Hermon stepped forward with his works. [10]
- It is especially gratifying that our prize courts, by the impartiality of their adjudications, have commanded the respect and confidence of maritime powers. [7]
- The successful competitor gets the prize which I have before mentioned, and an abundance of applause and envy along with it. [5]
- Perhaps he was galled the less because others had striven for the same prize, and had been thrust back, with an almost tender misgiving as to their sense of self- preservation and sanity. [11]
- I prize your friendship as I always have. [13]
- Such a clerk for you, Brass, such a prize, such an ace of trumps. [12]
- My young lady flung her head higher than ever, and made a minuet as well as any dame upon the floor, while I stood very glum at the thought of the prize slipping from my grasp. [9]
- Even Tetzel's dull face was less dull than its wont, and Ursula's eyes sparkled as though her knight had carried off the prize. [10]
- Remember, the more elevated the mark at which you aim, the more sure, the more glorious, the more magnificent the prize. [5]
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